Tcepsa's Thoughts

From an exchange between myself and gipsieee a few days ago during which she was attempting to convince me to knit myself a hat instead of buying one, and I was offering protestations as to why this was probably not a good plan for me.

G: Stop poking holes in my parade!
T: ~giggle~ Your malaprop is delicious.
G: Malaprops are not food!
T: ~laugh~ My malaprop is delicious too!
G: "Ignoring the truth will not make it go away." From a sign in front of a church that I just drove past.

At which point the conversation fell apart completely. ^_^

There is a symbol before me
What was it for, now?
I think it used to have meaning

Had some conversation about community with gipsieee over the weekend, and came to some conclusions that, while I don't particularly like them, I think I can probably live with them. Conclusions may be too strong a word. Stopping point from which I can look further later might be better ^_^

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I think that this comic provides a fun introduction (after all, who doesn't love giant rampaging dinosaur discourse? Except maybe Randall Munroe, author of xkcd and professed raptorphobe ;)

My current two cents: My own personal experience leads me to suspect that it is true, and it's why you occasionally see random encodings (words describing a concept) popping up here; I'm trying to become more aware of ideas that I've never even considered--or at least not considered seriously--because I didn't have words for them. My worldview has been shifting a lot lately, and while I wouldn't say my actual vocabulary has expanded, I would say that my encodings have. In other words, I now have more concepts put in words (sometimes a lot of words in an ungainly conglomeration) that I never really even thought about before--in some cases, never realized they existed. Mainly, I suspect, because my existing worldview (collection of memes?) hadn't really allowed for them, and I didn't know words for them.

In a conversation with gipsieee this morning, I made the comment that a particular type of paper was unnecessary for a project that I am working on, and that the important thing is that it is paper-like and draw-uponable. We then proceeded to work out what exactly I had just done. We figured out that I'd adjectived a prepositional phrase and created, as she put it, a prepositional phradjective ^_^

What is the difference between 'lexicalize' and 'define'? (aside from the obvious ones like 'number of syllables' and 'spellings' ;p )

Inspired by a conversation that I had yesterday and this post about acceptability of needs and preconditions, I've been thinking about how we tend to break relationships apart into physical and emotional parts and then compare them against each other. Usually emotional, at least in mainstream American culture, seems to be considered better than physical--a couple who says of each other "my partner and I send each other love notes every day!" is usually considered to have a better, superior relationship than a couple who says of each other "my partner and I have incredibly good sex every day!"

( I think that such a dichotomy between physical and emotional is worse than useless; from what I can tell it implies that things work differently than the way they really do. )